WBS Distinguished Lecture with Warwick Alumni Stef Calcraft

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WBS Distinguished Lecture Series with Alumni & Marketing Pioneer Stef Calcraft - Tuesday 12 December at The Shard

We are pleased to announce that we will host alumni & marketing pioneer Stef Calcraft for the first Distinguished Lecture in our 2023/2024 Distinguished Lecture Series at the Shard. Professor John Rudd will host the evening, and Stef Calcraft will speak on "The World Turned Upside Down: The Rise of the New Communications Economy".

Timings:

This in-person lecture starts with bowl food and drinks at 18.00 at The Shard and ends at 8 pm.

Please be aware that this is a closed event with limited places. To confirm attendance for this, please sign up by Friday, 2 December.

With

Stef Calcraft is CEO of Creative Futures at EssenceMediacom and leads the agency’s creative divisions around the world.

Global pioneers in leading the integration of creative, media, data and technology, Creative Futures is designed to bring the most progressive strategic and creative thinking to all EssenceMediacom clients and partners.

Stef is the co-founder of Mother, one of advertising’s most iconic and celebrated agencies. In 2023, Stef and his Mother co-founders were presented with the D&AD President's Award. An accolade given once a year to a "legend whose contribution to the industry has been nothing but inspirational".

While at Mother, Stef was also a silent founding partner of Naked Communications, a trail-blazing communications agency in the 2000s. Stef has also served as Non-Executive Director for Blue Rubicon, now part of Global CEO Advisory Firm Teneo, and as an adviser to Sir Ridley Scott, culminating in the launch of Ridley Scott Creative Group. Before joining EssenceMediaCom, Stef was Executive Chairman of Dentsu International UK & Ireland. Stef began his career in marketing at Unilever.